Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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A Zoo in My Luggage, by Gerald Durrell. The author, a noted zoologist and brother of Lawrence Durrell, tells of following his love of animals to the Cameroons, and shows that he has his novelist brother's ability to impale the butterfly of reality on the point of a...
Goodbye to a River, by John Graves. The Brazos River in Texas was to be ruined by power dams, and the author, who writes well of the region's wildlife and wild living, tells of a three-week solo canoe trip he made as a farewell gesture.
Summoned by Bells, by John Betjeman. In a charming autobiography in verse, the author tells of a youth that was unremarkable except for the pain, joy and insight that go with being a poet.
The inevitability of war has replaced peaceful co-existence as the central doctrine of communism, Earl Browder, a leader of the Communist Party expelled in 1946 for disagreeing as to its future aims in America, told a Ford Hall Forum audience last night.
Embodied in the new Communist Manifesto, published during the recent Moscow conference of the 81 communist parties, the change in policy means that Peking is now the "ideological center" of the communist world. Political pressures within Russia, Browder asserted, forced Khrushchev to submit to the Chinese stand that history will...